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Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Nautical nonsense. Always check the alt text.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · Nov 19

Starting a temporary thread of threads so I can find stuff again, starting with a subject close to my heart...

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · Oct 8

This here is one of the great U-boat hunters of the Second World War.

Grab a comfy seat and a glass of something pleasing. We're going on a journey...

Wren Janet Okell, staring at the camera with a slightly awkward smile. Fair enough - as we'll see, she did her best work hidden behind a screen...

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 11h

(tbf he's probably busy doing the next prime ministers of France. He's got six to find just to get us to Tuesday)

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 11h

This implies there's some sort of line of succession being maintained somewhere, possibly by the same chap who does the Royal Family.

I do hope he doesn't get the two lists mixed up.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 16h

YES!

Also the only animals to fly through the power of jazz hands.

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Maz Jovanovich @mazjovanovich.bsky.social · 19h

They say a picture tells a thousand words - and this one definitely does.

I found it unexpectedly today while in search of another image and it stopped me in my tracks.

Smiling pregnant woman in military uniform being promoted by another woman and a man, who are both putting new rank slides onto her shirt, in front of an aircraft.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 19h

Yes!

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21h

All the essential bits are still attached in that image…

It's a 1930s fighter designed to operate from relatively austere airfields (by modern standards) - it ought to be able to take some stick. I just hope "safely returned to service" means "we've finally caught up with 8 decades of maintenance".

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21h

I've run the sums before on some of the more egregious murdertugs and always been reassured by the numbers that drop out, but never tried it for one of these. Must have still been unpleasant to be around.

In the painting I assume it's been ballasted to increase the elevation?

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 23h

Sort of.

It's more like taking a few timbers from the Mary Rose, building a replica around them, dumping the rest and announcing the replica is now the Mary Rose.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

Kind of. I'm mocking a genuine thing where wreckage is being "restored" as virtually new aircraft with a token amount of the original purely so that it can claim to be the same machine. It can be extremely murky.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

Even now a crack team of Scottish culinary scientists are racing against time to discover a way to deep fry it.

juux @juux.com · 1d

omg part deux

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

I know what restored airplanes are like - the gasket that blew was quite possibly the only actual remaining piece of the aircraft it claimed to be...

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

I've just said this to an online mate, but seriously - imagine losing a battle of the diss tracks so badly that you sue in a desperate attempt to save face and then the judge hands you your arse a second time?

Absolutely staggering body of work.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine losing a battle of the diss tracks so badly that you sue in a desperate attempt to save face and then the judge hands you your arse a second time?

Absolutely staggering body of work, that.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

"Depicting Kendrick Lamar playing hopscotch while singing the 'A-minor' lyric is not suggestive of objective reporting."

The figurative imagery accompanying the music video also constitutes protected opinion. Plaintiff alleges, for example, that the “Video depicts a prolonged shot of a live owl in a cage,” projecting the message that “Drake belongs behind bars.” Am. Compl. ¶ 110. An image of a caged owl cannot reasonably be understood to convey a factual message. Similarly, depicting Kendrick Lamar playing hopscotch while singing the “A-minor” lyric is not suggestive of objective reporting. Id. ¶ 107.

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Scornflake Ghhhoul @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · 1d

I have questions. Mainly, why is the York Maze this year shaped like a lion holding a butt plug?

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Newcastle United midfielder Joe Willock, 26, had to be rescued from York Maze after a distress call to emergency services was made at around 5pm on Tuesday. He had been lost in the UK's largest maze for approximately six hours.

Underneath is a picture of the maze and it looks like a lion is holding a butt plug with a holy glow surrounding it

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 1d

Bit amazed by this bit:

'Investigators said they found a degraded gasket had created a fuel system leak, which caused the power loss.

The agency found the system was "at least 70-years-old and its last overhaul date was unknown"'

WW2 Spitfire had to do emergency landing as engine stopped

A safety notice is now in place following the emergency landing in West Hythe.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

For the prosecution or the defence?

(Full disclosure - the hidden track off the Magic Treehouse was on my mixtape that I listened to before races)

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

a man wearing glasses and a leather jacket says yeah yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied

Alt: Jeff Goldblum giving it the old "your scientists..." quote

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

I hope you at least gave them an accession number before filing them?

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

Over here hush puppies are rather comfortable but boring shoes. I was briefly wondering why you would fry one, but then remembered there are times you run out of midshipmen.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

Even now a crack team of Scottish culinary scientists are racing against time to discover a way to deep fry it.

juux @juux.com · 1d

omg part deux

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

Kipling's gone surprisingly out of fashion these days. Some critics suggest his Edwardian jingoism is now rather dated, whereas others point to his refusal to produce a caterpillar birthday cake.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

A pump and dump scheme, no less

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

What's the worst that can happen?

Brazilian superstar Ronaldo, wearing a haircut that can only be described the tragic consequences of a young man left a long way from home in a hotel room devoid of any entertainment except the hair clippers. You know that experiment that showed people would rather electrocute themselves than do nothing? It's exactly that as a haircut.

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1d

It's on the RAIB section of gov uk